Spring Break

It has been so nice this week that we only did one day of school. I heard a statistic last week that stated the average kid spends about 1% of his time outdoors. That's about 14 min, the time it takes to get from the bus stop to home or school. I'm happy to know my kids are on the larger side of that average. I love the flexibility we have to just throw schoolwork out the window on beautiful days (or weeks) and get out to enjoy nature.

I've been thinking that we'll probably keep school up throughout the summer. I think it might be nice to stay on a flexible schedule so when we wake up to rain, or just a particularly boring day, we can pull out some lessons. Or maybe with that they'll just learn not to come to me if they are bored!

Cave Drawings

Today for history we talked about Nomads and learned about what they ate and how they lived. For our activity we made cave drawings. It ended up an experiment: what kinds of things could nomads use to draw on the cave walls? Sean suggested blood from animals, so I got out the red paint. He also thought maybe we could make green paint with leaves. Here they are trying to squeeze some green "paint" from a leaf.

Ethan thought maybe the daffodils would yeild some yellow, but he wasn't satisfied because it was too light. We also used "charcoal" from my old pastel set. Here is Sean's finished drawing. (Ethan was being OCD and gave up)